“1954 UFO Chronology and the Great Wave of 1954”
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the web page:
“Created January 29, 2006; updated 21 April 2016
This is a 19-page report on an on-going project involving
a number of people. With the help of Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive),
and Dan Wilson (digging out the cases from my checklist), the task becomes much
easier. But without Brad Sparks’ updated list, the Comprehensive Catalog of
Project Blue Book Unknowns, the entire project would have been impossible. And
our thanks also go to Jean Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID)
that helped make it possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves.
This was the year of the Walesville crash, the BOAC
case, the Sea Fury incident, and the famous Bermuda radar case, and many
others. A significant number of unusual sightings occurred in Europe during
what has become known as the ‘Great Wave of 1954.’ Much of this wave
has already been documented in UFO literature, but what was not known until the
release of the CIA files is the fact that the CIA collected many of the
sightings through normal intelligence channels, something which they had
supposedly fought to block with the Robertson Panel inquiry. (Clear Intent,
132) Examples of reports excerpted from official CIA information sheets are provided
below in their chronological sequence. The CIA reports are mostly translated
press clippings, newspaper and dates should have been included but were not
available.
What may not be known is that the Anomalies
Foundation: The Year 1954 in
Photos (fotocat report #1) lists and documents 101 photographs in its 23-page
report for that year alone. And just added to this chrono is The World-Wide
Wave of 1954 by Don Johnson.
Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator”
Actual radar scope photo, near Bermuda
(see July 3, 1954; Near Bermuda (BBU))
(nicap.org photo)
